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NEXT OF KIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does next of kin mean? 

NEXT OF KIN (noun)
  The noun NEXT OF KIN has 1 sense:

1. the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given personplay

  Familiarity information: NEXT OF KIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEXT OF KIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("next of kin" is a kind of...):

relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)


 Context examples 


It will be a bright day for Sir Lothian Hume when they can prove him dead, for he is next of kin, and till then he can touch neither title nor estate.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was next of kin, no doubt, and you were aware that the old fellow would make no will.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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